Hurricane Hagibis Spreads Fukushima Radiation (But No, 2,667 Bags of Decontaminated Waste were NOT Washed Away!)
Nuclear HotSeat BY NHADMIN OCTOBER 16, 2019 Fukushima Hurricane Hagibis Flooding – deluge of water washes full bags of “decontaminated” soil, plants, and other radioactive matter into Furumichi river near the Japanese city of Tamura in Fukushima Prefecture (above). No report yet on how much radioactive material from the decomposing, torn waste bags was washed back into the environment. http://nuclearhotseat.com/2019/10/16/fukushima-hurricane-hagibis-flooding-spreads-radiation-risks/
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Below are brief extracts – transcript from this important podcast.
Hurricane Hagibis – Alarms went off – City said an unknown number of radioactive waste bags were lost…
Each bag weighs more than one tonne…. some bags not swept away but still damaged
Nancy Faust of SimplyInfo.org. “- not enough information yet… Tepco did have time to prepare for the typhoon.
Tepco phrased it vaguely about the readings of radioactivity – equipment is monitored – readings showed that rain-water was leaking in to various facilities. They measured only the water itself, not radiation. Tepco has not talked about how much water is coming in to the reactor. We worry about how much water is coming in , and then washing things out.”
Question: Do we know how many bags of radioactive material were washed away?
“One report from one city Tamara City – has 2667 bags onsite – did not say how many were washed away -said that 6 were found….. We don’t know yet how many were washed away
We also don’t know the condition of these bags at the storage site. Older bags at higher risk of breaking. They have a lifespan of about 6 years. Also we don’t know what the level of radioactivity is in these bags.
We may get some bits of information about how much radiation was dispersed over the next weeks. Simply Info will be looking for differences in radiation level reports. Tepco not legally obliged to give this information.
From Arnie Gunderson.
Sean McGee reminds that there will be dispersal of radiatioactive material after the area dries out, and from the mountains.
The story that all 2667 bags were swept away is incorrect . That imprecision in the report was in the headline.
The Japanese government and Tepco will try to obscure the facts. It’s incumbent upon us to be accurate. |
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